Google recently announced through its official blog in Europe that is coming to this continent functionality that makes the Android inform the competent authorities of their current location whenever you make an emergency call.
the goal is “to improve the localization process in the immediate response to the emergency services have to give those reports gender situations through voice calls by phone” in this case using a terminal with Android operating system installed.
According to Google, the Emergency Location Service feature makes use of Wi-Fi and GPS to locate the user both in outdoor spaces such as interior, and should be activated in the smartphone settings and Android Play Services. The company says that the transmitted data is always intended only to emergency services in the countries concerned and not by Google considering other purposes.
For now, the feature is available only in the United Kingdom and Estonia, and is expected to be extended to other European countries over the coming months, through collaboration with local operators. Google says that “99% of Android smartphones” will be able to handle the functionality smoothly.
We recall that Apple already uses this feature in their mobile operating systems iOS for some time. “For your security, your device’s location information can be used for emergency calls, to help the emergency services, whether or not enabled Location Services”, can be read on the support section of the website of the brand .
mobile App identifies spam calls
However, Google announced another related functionality with voice calls via Android smartphones and aims to raise security levels of users.
This is an update to Mobile voice call app, which will soon identify with a red message whenever a spam call comes to your smartphone .
After the call and respective identification, the user can block the number in question and to report it to Google as contact associated with spam. Incidentally, this is a feature that will also be applied whenever a user wishes to block any number, for various reasons,
The bad news is that this feature will only work when the app is installed on Google smartphones, that is, only in the models of the Nexus One and Android lines
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